From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Variant spellings in GNU Emacs documentation Date: 20 Jan 2004 10:47:58 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074592262 17928 80.91.224.253 (20 Jan 2004 09:51:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:51:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 20 10:50:51 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AisX5-0001HA-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:50:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AisWe-0004JZ-0Q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:50:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AisV3-0003vD-AX for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AisUI-0003ez-HS for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:48:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [130.59.10.2] (helo=chx400.switch.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AisUH-0003d2-BS for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:47:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.11.165]) by chx400.switch.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AisUF-0005zt-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:47:55 +0100 Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:47:54 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:47:54 +0100 (MET) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: pd950a070.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 15 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd950a070.dip.t-dialin.net (217.80.160.112) X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1074592074 18428527 217.80.160.112 ([198409]) X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6655 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6655 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > So I think whatever juvenile and unprofessional attitude follows > from this, it's been out there for so long that nothing can now > change our image in people's eyes, and any damage it could have > possibly done to the free software movement is already done. Only if nobody bothers reading a manual nowadays that he has not already read and memorized before. I do get this impression sometimes, but then where would the point be in maintaining manuals in the first place? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum